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In October 2012, Harvard Business Review put a spotlight on the data science career with a dedicated issue and a catchy claim: Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. Last year in October, five years on, Forbes recast an answer on Quora, Why Data Science Is Such A Hot Career Right Now? Recent...

On July 19, we held our monthly Bay Area Spark Meetup (BASM) at Databricks, HQ in San Francisco. At the Spark + AI Summit in June, we announced two open-source projects: Project Hydrogen and MLflow. Partly to continue sharing the progress of these open-source projects with the community and partly to encourage community contributions, two...

Within a couple of years of its release as an open-source machine learning and deep learning framework, TensorFlow has seen an amazing rate of adoption. Consider the number of stars on its github page: over 105K; look at the number of contributors: 1500+; and observe its growing penetration and pervasiveness in verticals: from medical imaging...

London, as a financial center and cosmopolitan city, has its historical charm, cultural draw, and technical allure for everyone, whether you are an artist, entrepreneur or high-tech engineer. As such, we are excited to announce that London is our next stop for Spark + AI Summit Europe, from October 2-4th, 2018, so prepare yourself for...

Apache Spark is tackling new frontiers through innovations by unifying new workloads. This enables developers to combine data and AI to develop intelligent applications. Developers come to this summit not just to hear about innovations from contributors. They come to share their use cases, experiences, and absorb knowledge. @matei_zaharia just announced support of #kubernetes in...

By any measurement today, in the digital media, technical conferences and citations, or searches on Google trends, the frequency of terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning or data science is on the rise. A special report in The Economist makes the case that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and its purported...

Within a couple of years of its release as an open-source machine learning and deep learning framework, TensorFlow has seen an amazing rate of adoption. Consider the number of stars on its github page: 98+K; look at the number of contributors: 1500+; and observe its growing penetration and pervasiveness in verticals: from medical imaging to...

Convergence of Knowledge For any Apache Spark enthusiast, these summits are the convergence of Spark knowledge. Used by a growing global community of enterprises, academics, contributors, and advocates, attendees have convened at these summits since 2013 to share knowledge. And this summer attendees will return to San Francisco—to an expanded scope and agenda. Expansion of...

In collaboration with the local chapter of Women in Big Data Meetup and our continuing effort by Databricks diversity team to have more women in the big data space as speakers to share their subject matter expertise, we hosted our second meetup with a diverse and highly-accomplished women in their respective technical fields as speakers...